How Islamic Work Ethics Moderates Relationships Among Transformational, Transactional Leadership Styles and Managerial Effectiveness? (A Study on Yemeni Oil and Gas Sector)

Abstract

The Leader Secure Base Support in the terms of (leader availability, encouragement and non-interference) positively supports employee’s workplace behavior. The current study examines the impact of Leader Secure Base Support (availability of leader, encouragement to growth and non-interference) on proactive workplace behavior of employees with the mediation of autonomous motivation and moderation of Islamic Work Ethics. Data from 286 employees were collected from the Oil and Gas sector of Yemen through convenience sampling technique. Later the data was tested through SPSS and one-way ANOVA and different tests were performed. The results show that the leader secure base support has positive significant effect on the proactive workplace behavior of employees. Autonomous motivation also proves a significant underlying mediation between leader secure base support and proactive workplace behavior. Furthermore, the Islamic Work Ethics does not moderate the relationship of leader secure base support with autonomous motivation. It is concluded that leader secure base support is very helpful to enhance the proactive workplace behavior of employees in Oil and Gas Sector which leads to Oil and Gas growth. This study greatly aids the Oil and Gas sector to improve the effectiveness of employee's productivity. It serves as the guideline that how important the beliefs and leader support are. The other outcomes of the leader secure base support can be discussed in the future study in IT industry.